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Cigarette packets should have pictorial warnings like that of a scorpion, a crab, cancer patients or other risks associated with smoking on cigarettes packaging to make smoking less attractive. Would this be a deterrent?
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Russia’s finance minister Alexei Kudrin urged citizens Wednesday to smoke and drink more to help lift tax revenues for spending on social services.
“If you...
made popular Sep 2 2010
Uruguay has promised to water down anti-smoking laws after pressure from the tobacco giant Philip Morris, prompting accusations of corporate bullying.
The government...
made popular Jul 28 2010
The Hamas-run government in Gaza on Sunday said it had banned women from smoking water pipes in public, as fear of the police drove many cafe owners to extinguish the...
made popular Jul 20 2010
Smoking bans and recession are stubbing out Cuba’s cigar industry, signalling a hostile era for a product whose mystique once captivated the likes of Winston...
made popular Jun 23 2010
There were 1,200 fewer hospital admissions for heart attacks in England in the year after July 2007 - when the smoking ban came in, research suggests.
made popular Jun 9 2010
Of the nearly 11 million smokers in the country half will die from smoking-related ailments, according to the National Institute of Public Health.
In Mexico, according...
made popular Jun 2 2010
Lung Cancer:
The need to diagnose lung cancer at an early and potentially curable stage is obvious. In addition, most patients who develop lung cancer have been smokers...
made popular May 29 2010
This is the two-year-old Indonesian boy who throws a tantrum when his parents refuse him a cigarette.
Ardi Rizal was given his first cigarette by his father when he...
made popular May 22 2010
Finland is the first country in Europe to require that all cigarettes be self-extinguishing. All other kinds of cigarettes are banned as of April 1.
The move is an...
made popular Apr 2 2010
World-known for its officially-heterosexual-only stance Chinese press had, probably, published a young homeless man’s photo for his exclusive handsomeness appearing...
made popular Mar 7 2010
People who quit smoking were as much as 80 percent more likely to develop diabetes than those who never take up the habit, according to Johns Hopkins University...
made popular Jan 5 2010
In dozens of states, Gary Richards wouldn’t have been able to light up a Marlboro before tucking into his meat-lover’s pizza, as he did at Satisfaction...
made popular Jan 2 2010
The question comes immediately to mind whether, President Obama, possesses the intelligence, strength and human willpower to lead the most powerful democratic country...
made popular Nov 28 2009
Around 8 months after banning smoking in public places in Jordan, Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad issues a decree banning smoking in public places and public...
made popular Oct 19 2009
When a strict anti-tobacco law came into effect three years ago, Maria Eugenia Avila scoffed. She had no intention of quitting the two packs a day she was delightfully...
made popular Oct 14 2009
It’s been a long time since passengers have been allowed to smoke on an airliner in the United States. It’s the same story in Europe. But now the smoking crowd...
made popular Sep 29 2009
Nothing seems too draconian when it comes to discouraging the populace from puffing on tobacco. Seven years after New York instituted its ban on smoking inside clubs,...
made popular Sep 16 2009
Drinking, promiscuity and a cycle of low aspiration mean Britain is becoming the ‘bad parent’ of the western world.
A vast study of youngsters’...
made popular Sep 3 2009
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Few anti tobacco messages through which almost all us come across are — smoking kills you, smoking is injurious for your health, it can cause cancer and can cause...
made popular Aug 29 2009
By declaring public places as free of smoking is one of the most positive and commendable moves of the current government. Smoking in public offices and other public...
made popular Jul 29 2009
The famed British Pub is more than a bar for which an occasional drink is had, rather is almost daily British routine, a part of British culture and a motif exported to...
made popular Jul 24 2009
Well, guys males have all rights to puff anywhere they want but females are not allowed for same. Don’t get shocked reading this, its strange but true, this incident...
made popular Jul 3 2009
The upsurge of lawsuits against tobacco companies in the 1990s did not happen because greedy trial lawyers suddenly realized the money to be made by suing “Big...
made popular Jun 19 2009
Greece will impose a tobacco ban in public places on July 1 in its third attempt in a decade to stamp out the habit in Europe’s biggest-smoking nation, the health...
made popular Jun 12 2009
While the taxes on cigarettes have been raised in years, it seems that it is not about money, but control. Experts believe that such “punitive” taxes will...
made popular Apr 22 2009
According to a study by the Pennsylvania University, dangling enough dollars in front of smokers who want to quit helps. The experiment on 900 General Electric workers...
made popular Feb 12 2009
Kelly Marley Pocock 24, from Merthyr Wales from South Wales, a mother who just did not care much about the bad effects of smoking. She just let her son, three year old,...
made popular Jan 23 2009
First of all, and because I see that Michael C hasn’t yet done so, (please excuse him, he even forgets MY BIRTHDAY) I shall say it for him. HAPPY NEW YEAR !!
Oh, and...
made popular Jan 5 2009
After much research, the US Public Health Commisiion has recommended some counseling and medication treatments that are considerably more effective for people looking...
made popular Dec 2 2008
As far as the question of how to quit smoking is concerned, there are many methods: herbal quit smoking techniques, quit smoking laser therapy, music and relaxation...
made popular Nov 14 2008
It’s easy to laugh at cigarette ads from the golden age of American smoking—say, from the flapper–ish 1920s through the cool Mad Men–era of the early sixties....
made popular Oct 21 2008
Imagine an enemy that kills one person every six seconds with non stop-killing. He is also responsible for one in 10 adult deaths worldwide, killing 5.4 million people...
made popular Oct 7 2008
A US study has suggested that more than 80 million people in China will die in the next 25 years as a result of lung disease. One in three cigarettes in the world is...
made popular Oct 5 2008
Cannabis is less harmful than alcohol or tobacco, according to a report by a research charity Thursday, which called for a
made popular Oct 3 2008
So, tomorrow is the D-Day for all you smokers out there. No more smoking in public places like Office buildings including the total covered area,in public transport...
made popular Oct 1 2008
Tobacco companies paid stars like Al Jolson, Bob Hope and Clark Gable to promote smoking as part of secret advertising deals with movie studios, according to a new...
made popular Sep 27 2008
1. Congress has won again the Lok Sabha election and decided to make A.Ramodass the Prime Minister who for getting any popularity can go to any extent in...
made popular Sep 23 2008
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Tobacco promotions and depictions of smoking in movies cause teenagers to start smoking, according to a sweeping report on tobacco in the media released on Thursday.
made popular Aug 23 2008
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Payam Rez, 23, of Sterling, Va., right, smokes a hookah pipe at Lebnan Zaman in Vienna, Va. on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2009. A smoking ban that makes no exceptions for hookah pipes has passed in Virginia’s legislature.
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